UNLOCKED: Welcome to The Neighborhood

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4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate the release of the new Mister Rogers biopic, 'A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood', we're reposting this cosy little episode! Current Affairs host Pete Davis and editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson discuss the visionary auteur, child development crusader, and moral voice Mister Rogers. Trailer for the movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VLEPhfEN2M

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0:00.0	Hello, Bird Feed. I am Pete Davis, and I'm here with our editor-in-chief.
0:04.9	Nathan J. Robinson.
0:05.9	And we are here to talk about one of my favorite people in American history.
0:12.0	I don't know where you stand on him, Nathan.
0:14.2	Mr. Rogers.
0:15.6	I'm pro-Mr. Rogers.
0:16.8	You're pro-Mr. Rogers.
0:18.0	I've never applied that label in particular before, but I am very pro Mr. Rogers.
0:22.0	So no, no take down, no contrarian take.
0:24.3	Oh, no.
0:25.2	Oh, who could?
0:29.3	We all love him.
0:30.7	Well, we know who could, which is Fox News.
0:33.5	Yes, and we will discuss that today.
0:36.0	And the fun that I've had prepping for this with Nathan is I've sent him the three things I want to discuss about Mr. Rogers.
0:44.3	Actually, probably the contrarian take that we're going to have today is strange reasons for loving him.
0:50.7	Which is, like, I love him for so many odd reasons. They are odd reasons reasons and I was trying to capture them all in this
0:58.0	one hour conversation and how do we organize this conversation so I said okay our first part
1:02.4	will be Mr. Rogers the auteur which is not crazy I wasn't convinced but I I'm I'm going to
1:10.6	I think I'm convinced now.
1:11.6	This came out of us discovering that Mr. Rogers did all of the puppets himself.
1:15.8	I had no idea that he was Henry and a Pussy Cat. I just, I found this out two days ago.
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